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New Positions 2016Japanese Abstract Paintings: Yasutake Iwana, Hajime Kashinaga and Hidekazu TanakaJuly 2nd. - August 6th, 2016taguchi fine art, Tokyo |
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Taguchi Fine Art is pleased to announce the new serial exhibitions titled "New Positions". In this series introduced are Japanese young artists who would for sure take important role in the future art scene in Japan. This first year, three painters working with abstract language, Yasutake Iwana, Hajime Kashinaga and Hidekazu Tanaka appear in the program. Yasutake Iwana was born in 1987 in Mie prefecture. After his graduation from the painting course of Seian University of Art and Design in Kyoto in 2010, he stayed in Germany, studying at Art Academy in Duesseldorf as a guest student until 2012. Currently living and working in his hometown, Shimagahara village in Mie. Recently he held solo shows at MA2 Gallery in Tokyo and Gallery Hosokawa in Osaka. Last year joined the group show "New-wave Artists in Mie" at Mie Prefectural Art Museum. He is a representative of the art group, "Mitsunoki (tree with sap)" in Shimagahara village organized in 2013 and is leading various activities deeply rooted in its local history, climate and culture. His paintings are created in this activity, of which motifs are the nature and the religion in the village. In many case he starts the work from concrete objects around him, they are, however, highly abstract and really sophisticated. It might be only a part in my painting but what is most important for me is to keep cultivating the earth (local ground). And the wish to reflect many stars in the sky on the surface of the water springing our from the deep hole of the ground. Yasutake Iwana Born in 1985 in Osaka, Hajime Kashinaga is currently living and working in Osaka. Graduated from Sakurazuka high school in Osaka, he could not find any significance to enter an art university and has been learning art history and painting by himself. His first solo show was at 2kw gallery 58, Osaka in 2011. From 2012 to this year, he had solo shows every year at O gallery eyes in Osaka. Since his first solo show, he has exhibited orthodox and painterly works, of which reference we may see to Abstract Expressionism. Kashinaga believes he can find the reality or the essentials only in the working process, first looking intently into his chaotic inner world, and then depicting it instinctively as abstract space while being engaged in working on canvas. His identity must exist in the act of painting. We can recognize obvious change in his recent works. Formerly his works were overall filled with vague illusion with dark colors. In current works, using bright raw colors he constructs the space with fragments cut by straight lines. Leave colors and traces coming up to my mind on canvas. Construct them with lines and organize them. These days I am interested in the way how the colors and the traces of paint get more power than those original forms and how they would effect on me. Hajime Kashinaga Hidekazu Tanaka was born in Hyogo prefecture in 1979. Graduated from the visual design course of Kyoto College of Art and transferred to the department of information design at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2000. His first solo show was at Gallery Coco in Kyoto in 1999. Studied painting at the foundation course of Chelsea College of Art and Design, London in 2001. Held solo shows at Kodama Gallery in Kyoto/Tokyo in 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012. Currently living, working in Kyoto and studying at the doctor course of Kyoto City University of Arts. He has been consistently trying experimental examination of abstract painting using very unique combined technique. For instance, he duplicates on canvas his original impulsive strokes or accidental forms made by himself and then arranges their forms and reconstructs the space with them. Or he projects on canvas some fragments from his old works and then traces, repeats or rotates them to produce his new paintings. Or he throws lumps of the paint to the canvas from a distance and moves them according certain objective rules, and then adds some associated forms to them. Invoking contemporary methodologies as sampling technique in the musical field and the concept of layer in the image processing software as Photoshop, he succeeds in creating spontaneous, rhythmic and very beautiful paintings, dealing issues of conscious and unconscious or time in the painting. I view this method of looping or sharing of images among artworks, which may at first glance be perceived as relinquishing creativity, as propositions on the concept of "abstract", such as the issue of the conscious and the unconscious, the relationship between artist and the art work, and the originality of the act itself of drawing the "abstract." Hidekazu Tanaka Although all these three artists are working in the Kansai area (West part of Japan), their attitude to and their way of dealing abstract painting are totally different. It is certain that their works and activities would enrich Japanese painting in the future. From 18:00 through 20:00 on the opening day, Saturday, July 2nd, we will have a reception for these three artists. Looking forward to your visit. *This show is realized by the cooperation with MA2 Gallery (Yasutake Iwana) Checklist of the installation Yasutake Iwana 1. The place where souls of dead gather, 2016 oil on canvas 41 x 31.8 cm 2. Animal Trail, 2016 oil on canvas 53 x 45.5 cm 3. Kannon-yama, 2015 oil on canvas 72.7 x 60.6 cm 4. Mitsunoki (tree with sap), 2016 oil on canvas 130.3 x 97.0 cm Hajime Kashinaga 1. Untitled, 2016 acrylic on canvas 162 x 130 cm 2. Untitled, 2016 acrylic on canvas 80.5 x 100 cm 3. Untitled, 2016 acrylic on canvas 38 x 45.5 cm Hidekazu Tanaka 1. Reversal Edge, 2016 oil on canvas 116.7 x 91 cm 2. Strings Negative, 2016 oil on canvas 60.6 x 50 cm 3. Strings Positive, 2016 oil on canvas 60.6 x 50 cm 4. Feedback #3, 2016 oil on canvas 53 x 45.5 cm 5. Feedback #4, 2016 oil on canvas 53 x 45.5 cm 6. Repetition #4, 2016 oil on canvas 41 x 31.8 cm |